Bloody Palace

The Bloody Palace is a game mode available in all Devil May Cry games except for the first, It is a single-elimination tournament that pits the player character against many groups of enemies and bosses, each on a lower floor, until they reach the end of the Palace.

Gameplay

Devil May Cry 2

In Devil May Cry 2, Bloody Palace becomes available in Mission Select menu after clearing Normal difficulty with both Dante and Lucia. This additional mode was intended for the player to master their skills and abilities as well as gain a large sum of Red Orbs.

The goal is to kill all the enemies on levels 1–9999 – enclosed spaces, similar to Secret Rooms. After completing a level the player is presented with three portals to choose from; empty portal advances one level, portal with white magic circle – ten levels and portal with green magic circle – 100 levels. The enemy groupings are semi-random for each run through the palace, with levels ending with 0 spawning bosses. Enemies on levels 1–100 use Normal difficulty settings, on levels 101–1000 – Hard, level 1001 and higher – Must Die. Highest level – 9999, is repeated indefinitely, making the player fight nearly every boss in the game. This mode ends only with death of the player character.

After that the Results screen appears. It shows the highest level reached, time spent, enemies killed, and amount of Red Orbs obtained during the run. The player is also presented with a bonus calculated as:

Amount of bonus Red Orbs = (highest level reached − 1) × 10.

Unlike later versions, there is no in-game reward for completing the palace aside from the achievements in the HD Collection and the Nintendo Switch version and the aforementioned Red Orbs.

Devil May Cry 3

The Bloody Palace mode was added in Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition, but was not present in the original release. It is unlocked after completing the game once. Completing the mode with either character unlocks the "Super Costume" for that character (this is an alternative way of unlocking the Super Costume, as opposed to completing the game on "Very Hard" mode). The Palace has 10000 levels (floors)—starting with 0 and ending with 9999, the final level being the final battle with Vergil—with an additional boss fight loaded for every ten floors visited. After passing one level, the player is given 3 portals to choose from:

1. The Water Portal - The Water Portal advances 1 level and grants a free Green Orb.
2. The Lightning Portal - The Lightning Portal advances 10 levels and gives a free White Orb.
3. The Fire Portal - The Fire Portal advances 100 levels with no free reward.

Local Co-op (Nintendo Switch version)

The co-op menu with Dante as P1.

Devil May Cry 3 for Nintendo Switch features an additional local co-op mode for Bloody Palace. This platform exclusive feature allows two players to challenge the mode together as Dante and Vergil on one console. Bloody Palace is unlocked by default in this version. Players can immediately access it at the intro mission by quitting said mission and selecting the mode on the mission selection screen.

When selecting the BP mode player has the choice to play it solo or co-op. Then players would have to press L+R on their controllers for confirmation (single Joy-Con, double Joy-Con, and Pro Controllers are supported in any combination), and select an existing save data for the other player character. After that characters' current best results in BP are displayed and players can customize their controller setups for each character.

Two players on one screen.

On the levels characters' game interfaces displayed separately—P1 on the left, P2 on the right—they share the Stylish gauge, however. On normal levels players share the screen with game camera zooming in and out to keep the characters in view. For boss fights though split screen is used—upper and lower halves of the screen for P1 and P2 respectively. If a player character dies on the level, they can still be revived on the next one provided the other one survives.

Devil May Cry 4

In Devil May Cry 4, there are only 101 floors, with bosses fought on every twenty floors, culminating with Dante on the 101st floor. Unlike other incarnations of the palace, the enemy groupings are set, and the player can only travel one floor at a time. The player must also compete against a countdown timer. The player starts with 2 minutes and time bonuses are obtained by defeating the enemies, with more time being awarded by defeating them with higher stylish ranks. Completing a floor will also award additional time, with a bonus for clearing it without taking any damage.

If the player chooses to play as Dante, the Dante boss in the final floor will be completely black.

For Devil May Cry 4, the Bloody Palace can provide some interesting fights not available throughout the campaign, especially when you are playing as Dante. If playing as Dante, an all-black Dante will be fought on the 101st floor; this is considered by some to be the Doppelganger's cameo appearance in the game. Aside from the new black Dante boss fight, Bloody Palace allows the player to fight Angelo Agnus in his chambers, Bael, and Angelo Credo with Dante. Furthermore, it is only in Bloody Palace mode where the player can see the complete in-game animation of Angelo Credo's death.

With the Special Editon, Bloody Palace remains the same, but now the player is also able to choose to play as Vergil, Lady or Trish. It's also possible to use any of the added costumes in Bloody Palace as well as combine them with the Super Costumes that only Nero, Dante and Vergil have. In order to enable that, the player must first start Bloody Palace or any mission with the desired costume, quit the mission and then choose the Super Costume. The character will now have infinite Devil Trigger and all the "Super" properties while wearing the extra costume.

Time added per enemy and bonus

The following information was taken from the Devil May Cry 4: Official Prima Guide:

Enemy	Seconds Added
Alto Angelo	+20
Assault	+10
Basilisk	+5
Bianco Angelo	+10
Blitz	+30
Chimera	(value of host)
Chimera Seed	+2
Cutlass	+15
Faust	+20
Frost	+10
Gladius	+2
Mega Scarecrow	+15
Mephisto	+10
Scarecrow	+5
D rank bonus	+1
C rank bonus	+2
B rank bonus	+3
No Damage Bonus, Stage 1-19	+30
No Damage Bonus, Stage 21+	+20

Enemy list per stage

Stage	Enemies
Stage 001	Scarecrow (Arm) (3)
Stage 002	Scarecrow (Leg) (4)
Stage 003	Scarecrow (Arm) (3), Scarecrow (Leg) (3)
Stage 004	Frost (2)
Stage 005	Bianco Angelo (2)
Stage 006	Mephisto (3)
Stage 007	Gladius (6)
Stage 008	Chimera Seed (9)
Stage 009	Chimera Seed (9), Scarecrow (Arm) (3)
Stage 010	Scarecrow (Arm) (6), Scarecrow (Leg) (6)
Stage 011	Assault (2)
Stage 012	Mega Scarecrow (2)
Stage 013	Assault (2), Bianco Angelo (2)
Stage 014	Faust
Stage 015	Bianco Angelo (2), Alto Angelo
Stage 016	Scarecrow (Arm) (3), Scarecrow (Leg) (3), Mega Scarecrow
Stage 017	Alto Angelo (2)
Stage 018	Blitz
Stage 019	Basilisk (4)
Stage 020	Berial
Stage 021	Mephisto (2), Frost
Stage 022	Frost (2), Faust
Stage 023	Frost (2), Assault (3)
Stage 024	Assault (3), Basilisk (4)
Stage 025	Assault (3), Blitz
Stage 026	Basilisk (4), Blitz
Stage 027	Bianco Angelo (2), Frost (2)
Stage 028	Gladius (8), Assault (2)
Stage 029	Gladius (6), Blitz
Stage 030	Frost (4), Assault (6), Blitz
Stage 031	Chimera Seed (7), Mephisto (3)
Stage 032	Scarecrow (Arm) (3), Faust
Stage 033	Mephisto (2), Mega Scarecrow
Stage 034	Mephisto (6)
Stage 035	Mephisto (3), Frost
Stage 036	Scarecrow (Leg) (2), Faust
Stage 037	Assault (3), Mephisto (2)
Stage 038	Mephisto (2), Blitz
Stage 039	Chimera Seed (9), Faust
Stage 040	Bael
Stage 041 (Difficulty changes to Son of Sparda)	Chimera Seed (10)
Stage 042	Chimera Seed (4), Scarecrow (Leg) (2), Infested Scarecrow (3)
Stage 043	Infested Assault (4)
Stage 044	Chimera Seed (6), Gladius (6)
Stage 045	Infested Assaults (2), Blitz
Stage 046	Chimera Seeds (4), Basilisk (2)
Stage 047	Bianco Angelo (2), Alto Angelo, Chimera Seed (5)
Stage 048	Scarecrow (Leg), Chimera Seed (6)
Stage 049	Infested Assaults (3), Faust
Stage 050	Scarecrow (Arm) (3), Scarecrow (Leg)(3), Assault (6), Chimera Seed (15)
Stage 051	Scarecrow (Arm) (6)
Stage 052	Scarecrow (Leg) (3), Gladius (9)
Stage 053	Mega Scarecrow (3), Frost (2)
Stage 054	Scarecrow (Arm) (2), Scarecrow (Leg) (3), Alto Angelo
Stage 055	Mega Scarecrow, Faust
Stage 056	Alto Angelo (2), Mega Scarecrow
Stage 057	Scarecrow (Arm) (2), Scarecrow (Leg)(2), Mephisto (3)
Stage 058	Basilisk (5), Mega Scarecrow
Stage 059	Chimera Seed (4), Infested Scarecrow (2), Mega Scarecrow
Stage 060	Echidna
Stage 061	Bianco Angelo (4)
Stage 062	Bianco Angelo (3), Cutlass (2)
Stage 063	Bianco Angelo (2), Blitz
Stage 064	Bianco Angelo, Gladius (6)
Stage 065	Bianco Angelo (7), Alto Angelo
Stage 066	Alto Angelo, Basilisk (4)
Stage 067	Alto Angelo (2), Blitz
Stage 068	Bianco Angelo (2), Scarecrow (Arm) (6)
Stage 069	Frost (2), Alto Angelo
Stage 070	Alto Angelo (2), Bianco Angelo (7)
Stage 071	Gladius (17)
Stage 072	Gladius (10), Mega Scarecrow
Stage 073	Gladius (9), Frost
Stage 074	Basilisk (4), Cutlass (2)
Stage 075	Cutlass (3), Alto Angelo
Stage 076	Cutlass (4), Gladius (9)
Stage 077	Basilisk (10)
Stage 078	Basilisk (4), Frost (2)
Stage 079	Basilisk (2), Cutlass (2), Gladius (4)
Stage 080	Credo
Stage 081 (Difficulty changes to Dante Must Die & enemies will start to enter Devil Trigger)	Scarecrow (Arm) (3), Scarecrow (Leg) (2), Mega Scarecrow
Stage 082	Mephisto (4), Faust
Stage 083	Frost (4)
Stage 084	Infested Scarecrow (2), Infested Assaults (2), Chimera Seed (12)
Stage 085	Blitz (2), Chimera Seed (3)
Stage 086	Alto Angelo, Bianco Angelo (2)
Stage 087	Gladius (9), Basilisk (4)
Stage 088	Cutlass (3), Bianco Angelo (2)
Stage 089	Mega Scarecrow (3), Blitz
Stage 090	Mega Scarecrow (3), Scarecrow (Arm) (14), Scarecrow (Leg)(14), Chimera Seed (3)
Stage 091	Faust (3)
Stage 092	Alto Angelo (3), Bianco Angelo (4)
Stage 093	Assault (8)
Stage 094	Infested Scarecrow (3), Chimera Seeds (6), Bianco Angelo (2)
Stage 095	Basilisk (16), Chimera Seeds (4)
Stage 096	Gladius (8), Cutlass (3), Bianco Angelo (3)
Stage 097	Mephisto (6), Mega Scarecrow (3)
Stage 098	Infested Scarecrow (2), Infested Assault (2), Chimera Seed (3)
Stage 099	Alto Angelo (2), Bianco Angelo (40)
Stage 100	Angelo Agnus
Stage 101	Dante

Devil May Cry 5

The Bloody Palace isn't featured in the base game of Devil May Cry 5 through natural means, but must instead be downloaded as a free update. It was first announced in the game's The Game Awards 2018 trailer, where it stated it would be available on April 2019. On March 14, 2019, it was announced that the Bloody Palace would release on April 1, 2019.

In order to unlock the mode in the first place, the game must have been beaten at least once. There are a total of 101 stages and they are again timed, similar to the Bloody Palace in Devil May Cry 4. After each stage, the player is awarded with Red Orbs and more time to complete the next floor. For Nero, "Rest Areas" are available which are stages that grant the player with multiple Devil Breakers instead of enemies.

A "Warm Up" feature is available in this iteration which allows the player to practice any floor they have cleared, making the mode a good way to battle bosses without needing to play an entire Mission. In additon, a "Suspend" option is also featured which lets the player save their current progress and leave the game. Once the "Continue" option is selected in the Main Menu, the player can then resume from where they left off. This Suspend option cannot be selected when an enemy is still present in the stage however.

Just like in Devil May Cry 4, the Bloody Palace allows for interactions not possible to be seen during the main Missions. For instance, a lot of bosses which are killed during the normal Missions do not show their full "dying" animations or specific voice line for when they die, and there are bosses which cannot be fought by either Dante, Nero or V. One special situation is the Vergil boss battle at the 101st floor when playing as V. When V finishes off Vergil without using Royal Fork, he has an unique animation and voice line where he states "You and I are one...". In addition, Nero also has unique Buster animations for all bosses he cannot fight during main Missions.

Completing the Bloody Palace will unlock the Special Provocation for the character that was used to complete it (also applies to Vergil), this provocation animation is the same seen in the special cutscene that plays once Bloody Palace is completed. There are also trophies & achievements tied to the Bloody Palace, though they are slightly different depending on the platform and version being played.

Using a Super Costume in the Bloody Palace will tank the end rank of the player and the "Scoreboard" in the menu will not save the final play time & extra time the player achieved during their run, however, both the Special Provocation and trophies & achievements will still be unlocked even if the player was using a Super Costume.

Dante's ending animation

Nero's ending animation

V's ending animation

Vergil's ending animation

Enemy list per stage

Note: The enemy list also applies to Vergil.

Stage	Enemies
Rest Area (Nero only)	N/A
Stage 001	Empusa (4)
Stage 002	Green Empusa (4)
Stage 003	Pyrobat (2)
Stage 004	Hell Caina (3)
Stage 005	Death Scissors
Stage 006	Scudo Angelo (2)
Stage 007	Baphomet (2)
Stage 008	Riot (3)
Stage 009	Qliphoth Tendrils (2)
Stage 010	Empusa (8), Green Empusa (4), Empusa Queen
Rest Area (Nero only)	N/A
Stage 011	Hell Antenora (3)
Stage 012	Chaos (2)
Stage 013	Proto Angelo
Stage 014	Lusachia
Stage 015	Behemoth
Stage 016	Hellbat
Stage 017	Nobody (2)
Stage 018	Fury
Stage 019	Empusa (4), Red Empusa
Stage 020	Goliath
Rest Area (Nero only)	N/A
Stage 021	Empusa (3), Green Empusa (2)
Stage 022	Hell Caina (2), Hell Antenora (2)
Stage 023	Pyrobat (8), Hellbat
Stage 024	Baphomet (2), Lusachia
Stage 025	Riot (2), Fury
Stage 026	Green Empusa (2), Empusa Queen
Stage 027	Scudo Angelo (2), Proto Angelo
Stage 028	Riot, Chaos (2)
Stage 029	Qliphoth Tendrils (3)
Stage 030	Hell Caina (9), Hell Antenora (6), Hell Judecca (2)
Rest Area (Nero only)	N/A
Stage 031	Pyrobat (3)
Stage 032	Empusa (6), Hellbat
Stage 033	Death Scissors (2), Nobody
Stage 034	Pyrobat (3), Red Empusa
Stage 035	Hellbat (5)
Stage 036	Hell Caina, Green Empusa (2)
Stage 037	Death Scissors (3), Behemoth
Stage 038	Qliphoth Tendrils (4)
Stage 039	Pyrobat (3), Hellbat (2), Death Scissors (2)
Stage 040	Artemis
Rest Area (Nero only)	N/A
Stage 041 (Difficulty increases to Son of Sparda)	Empusa (4), Baphomet
Stage 042	Empusa (5), Scudo Angelo (2)
Stage 043	Green Empusa (3), Hell Judecca
Stage 044	Chaos (2), Empusa Queen
Stage 045	Empusa (10), Fury
Stage 046	Green Empusa (3), Nobody (3)
Stage 047	Hell Antenora (3), Empusa Queen
Stage 048	Empusa (6), Behemoth
Stage 049	Green Empusa (3), Riot
Stage 050	Empusa Queen (3)
Rest Area (Nero only)	N/A
Stage 051	Red Empusa (2)
Stage 052	Hell Caina (2), Pyrobat
Stage 053	Death Scissors (2), Lusachia
Stage 054	Qliphoth Tendril, Behemoth (3)
Stage 055	Hell Caina (3), Proto Angelo
Stage 056	Baphomet (2), Scudo Angelo
Stage 057	Proto Angelo (2)
Stage 058	Death Scissors, Scudo Angelo (2)
Stage 059	Qliphoth Tendrils (6), Proto Angelo
Stage 060	Cavaliere Angelo
Rest Area (Nero only)	N/A
Stage 061	Riot (4)
Stage 062	Riot (2), Hellbat
Stage 063	Baphomet (2), Chaos
Stage 064	Hell Antenora (2), Fury
Stage 065	Chaos (2), Behemoth
Stage 066	Qliphoth Tendrils (6), Fury
Stage 067	Riot (3), Empusa Queen
Stage 068	Chaos (2), Nobody
Stage 069	Green Empusa (2), Chaos
Stage 070	Fury (3)
Rest Area (Nero only)	N/A
Stage 071	Hell Caina (2), Green Empusa (3)
Stage 072	Pyrobat (2), Hell Antenora (3)
Stage 073	Empusa (8), Hell Judecca
Stage 074	Hell Caina (7), Lusachia
Stage 075	Hell Antenora (6), Behemoth
Stage 076	Nobody (2), Hell Judecca
Stage 077	Hell Caina, Death Scissor (2)
Stage 078	Hell Antenora, Baphomet (2)
Stage 079	Proto Angelo, Hell Judecca (2), Qliphoth Tendrils (4)
Stage 080	Malphas
Rest Area (Nero only)	N/A
Stage 081 (Difficulty increases to Dante Must Die, and enemies start to enter Devil Trigger)	Empusa (10)
Stage 082	Hell Antenora (4)
Stage 083	Riot (3), Chaos (2)
Stage 084	Pyrobat (3), Green Empusa (3), Hellbat
Stage 085	Behemoth, Nobody, Empusa Queen
Stage 086	Hell Caina (2), Green Empusa
Stage 087	Riot (2), Proto Angelo
Stage 088	Fury (2)
Stage 089	Qliphoth Tendrils (10)
Stage 090	King Cerberus
Rest Area (Nero only)	N/A
Stage 091	Red Empusa (3)
Stage 092	Hell Caina, Baphomet (2)
Stage 093	Death Scissor (5)
Stage 094	Scudo Angelo, Lusachia (2), Qliphoth Tendrils (3)
Stage 095	Empusa, Pyrobat, Hell Caina, Scudo Angelo, Riot, Death Scissor
Stage 096	Green Empusa, Hell Antenora, Baphomet, Hellbat, Chaos, Nobody
Stage 097	Proto Angelo, Hell Judecca, Behemoth, Empusa Queen, Lusachia, Fury
Rest Area (Nero only)	N/A
Stage 098	Urizen (Mission 8 enthroned version, one hit after breaking crystal)
Stage 099	Urizen (Mission 12 version)
Stage 100	Urizen (Mission 17 version)
Stage 101	Vergil

DmC: Devil May Cry

In DmC: Devil May Cry, the Bloody Palace is a free DLC package, first made available February 20, 2013. Like previous iterations, it consists of 101 levels of survival-type gameplay. The DLC will require that the game be completed at least once before the Bloody Palace is unlocked.

The floors of the Palace are set in various areas from the game, and switch every twenty floors. Every fifteenth floor in each area is a special stage with interesting twists or environmental hazard. The first set of floors is based on the phantasmal landscape within Dante's soul, and floor 15 contains four puddles of Virility toxins. The second set takes place at Funland, and floor 35 includes the Hurricane as an environmental hazard. The third set is based on Devil's Dalliance, and includes the demon-angel alternating tiles on the 55th floor. The fourth set is based on the underwater limbo area preceding the Bob Barbas's tower, and includes an upside down level on the 75th floor. The fifth and final set is based on the area outside Mundus's Tower, and floor 95 becomes surrounded by flames like those from Furnace of Souls.

Bugs

Devil May Cry 2

• Using the Missile Launcher as Dante may make enemies clip outside the boundaries of the stage, making it impossible to complete the mode.

Devil May Cry 5

• In Stage 20 (Goliath boss battle), using the Royalguard Style as Dante when the Goliath uses his vacuum-like attack will cause Dante to float in the air alongside the vacuum, and all blocks will be considered perfect, even if the player just spams the button.
  • Furthermore, if Dante is with his Devil Trigger active, this attack will simply deal no damage and Dante will just slide to the side to where the vacuum is heading to.
• In Stage 66, it's possible the Fury will be stuck in a teleporting pattern where it won't attack the player.
• The game may crash during the Bloody Palace at random. In fact, this happened during an official Capcom livestream meant to promote the mode.
• In Stage 90, it's possible that the attack of King Cerberus where stalactites fall from the ceiling will be stuck in an infinite loop where it will keep falling down for the entire fight. However this is a graphical glitch, and the ice won't deal damage to the player.
• For PC players there is a bug with no known fix yet that makes your mouse appear on the screen after beating a stage, Its not a problem unless you use more than one monitor which is when it makes BP unbeatable and unplayable (Tested unwillingly as of March 8th 2024, still ingame)

DmC Devil May Cry

• During the fight against Succubus, Dante is sometimes teleported to the edge of the map.
• During the fight against The Hunter, the demon will sometimes remain stationary without attacking Dante for an extended period.
• During the fight against Mundus' Spawn, Lilith cannot be targeted by a Demon Pull once the baby's vitality is depleted.
• During the fight against Mundus or Vergil, it is possible that the two bosses take no damage from attacks in their final phase, even though style rankings continue to rise from your attacks.

Trivia

• In the original version of Devil May Cry 4, several of its achievements relate to the Bloody Palace, nine of which reference the Circles of Hell from the Divine Comedy.
• For Devil May Cry 5, when checking the game's files on PC, it's possible to see text for a mode called "Online Bloody Palace".

Gallery

Images

DMC5

Videos

Devil may cry 5 - bloodypalace

Video featured in the official Devil May Cry 5 site

Devil May Cry 5 - Trailer Bloody Palace

Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition (Switch) - Bloody Palace Co-op Showcase